Received this disturbing
email and I promised the author I’d pass it on.
Seems he is at the end of any options he has thought of for dealing with
this backwoods, good ol’ boy mentality of officials turning their back on prosecuting
animal cruelty. Heck, seems the “Sheriff”
actually likes the abuse of animals and finds it funny.
In short, I’m putting this
out there in hopes someone can help the author.
If you are in NC or know of anyone there, or in Hatteras Island, please let him know. I’d say the best thing to do would be to
email him at felixdesign@embarqmail.com
OR, let me know and I’ll get you his phone number. He goes by Daniel.
Dear GEARI,
We
are trying to form a group called Dare Citizens Against Animal Cruelty here in
Dare County (Hatteras Island) NC.
Locals
here are running down animals trying to cross our only road for fun. The death
toll is staggering and horrific. Our local Sheriff Doug Doughtie and Board of
Commissioners think it is funny and won't help no matter what. This is also a
National Park with many endangered species. The Audubon Society has already
sanctioned these animal abusive locals with a lawsuit closing the beaches, but
they are not helping save any of the rest of the wildlife.
There
was a raccoon mother trying to take her three babies across the road she
was run down, they saw the babies clinging to the dead mothers body and
turned around came back ran down 2 of the babies, then ran down the 3rd on the
way back by-I know this because only one car had been by since I had checked
the road and the blood splatters in the opposite lane told the whole story. How
can anyone find that amusing?
Recently,
Tony and Candy Willis's 10 and 14 year old boys lured a puppy a half mile out
to the busy highway and threw a stick out into traffic to watch it get hit
which it did and had to have it's leg amputated. The couple who run the pet
boarding place here witnessed it offered to testify but Sheriff Doughtie and
the magistrate are refusing to let the owner (one of our only single
african-american mothers) bring charges even though it is a felony under
NC Statute 14-360.The Parents think it is funny!
This
has become a place where drunks sit on their porches and use stray innocent
cats as target practice, which I have personally witnessed. I am trying to fix,
feed and build shelters for as many cats here as I can and I feed all other
animals to keep them away from the road. I have been picking up the dead bodies
on the road for 5 years now and taking some pictures so I know what is going on
here. There is a culture of animal cruelty here.
Can you
help with this or pass this along to someone who will?
Dare
Citizens Against Animal Cruelty
